Bolivia: Super high altitutde, super low temperatures!
As determined as I am to visit as many countries as possible I decided if we move quick enough we would have chance to visit Bolivia before we started our last project in Cuzco, Peru. After a tiring journey from … Continue reading
Peru: one helpful cabbie, one mental dune buggy driver and one very lonely German woman
As we made our way down the coast of Peru we decided to treat ourselves to a hotel on the beach in the breezy seaside town of Trujillo. Having spent the last week (or what felt like the last month) … Continue reading
Ecuador: The middle of the world
As much as we love long bus journeys we decided to fly from Costa Rica to Ecuador to save time. In Quito we met the organiser of our volunteering project who, to our amazement was there to met us on … Continue reading
If only we could hike a volcano every day!
Its fair to say I had no idea we would be traveling through this country (yes, yes my geography is shocking, even though I have a degree in it). After meeting a lovely brother and sister from Holland while we … Continue reading
Drink diving on the Island of Sin
Traveling onward with our new amigos we headed to Honduras. After a very nauseating 3 hour boat ride we arrived at a port and went through immigration. We all were tired and wanted to get to our final destination so … Continue reading
You better Belize it!
Belize is a place we had never originally planned to spend any time, we had already traveled through Belize on our way from Mexico to Guatemala, spending a total of 90 minutes there. It wasn’t until we met people in … Continue reading
Baby Monkey – Tam’s little bundle of joy….. and poo
So whilst everyone else was getting squawked at by angry parrots, or getting their brooms stolen by crazed Spider Monkeys, Tamara was busy tending to one of the youngest residents at the Arcas Wildlife Rescue centre. It was only a … Continue reading
Beautiful Views and Monkey Poos
Our next destination after Mexico was Guatemala. We took a bus out of Merida heading for Chetumal, where we had a brief overnight stopover. We had originally planned to explore Chetumal a little, but instead decided to bask in the … Continue reading
Clapping in Chichen Itza and Sinking in Cuzama!
After a hard week working long hours (we started at 8am and finished at midday) we looked forward to an action packed weekend of site seeing in Mexico. Ok so maybe it wasn’t that hard working a few hours each … Continue reading
One Bag in Paris & Two Idiots in Mexico
After our epic adventure across America, we took a few days to regroup back in England. Catching up with friends and family, and to swap out the clothes we had been wearing for the last six months – choosing from … Continue reading
The City That Never Sleeps & The Boardwalk Empire
After 9 and a half thousand miles, it was safe to assume we were getting pretty good at this RV driving lark, yep, we were feeling pretty confident, having dealt with various stressful driving situations and having been shouted at … Continue reading
Niagara Falls in the Rain, Toronto in the Snow and Boston in the Pub. Cheers!
Picking up from where we left of in Washington DC, (the nightmare driving, parking, being shouted at by police fiasco) we legged it out of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and followed the SatNav back to the RV (yep, … Continue reading
Visiting a Black Man in a White House!
We said yet another fond goodbye, this time it was Sandy and Carol in North Carolina. Feeling rejuvenated after our brief but well needed few days, we got up and on the road early. Next stop, Washington DC. The drive … Continue reading
Revisiting North Carolina
After leaving nashville, and saying some very fond fairwell’s to all of the new friends we’ve made there, we made our way out towards North Carolina. After about 350 miles, just before crossing out of Tennessee and into North Carolina, … Continue reading
A visit to the King’s house and rockin’ it in Nashville, Tennessee.
We left New Orleans just in time, I’m not sure we could have coped with any more carnage. After a bit of a rushed start, as we had been up until 4am drinking again, and Katy had gone and booked … Continue reading
Houston we have a problem… we went to New Orleans
After our epic 500 mile drive (see our last post!) we arrived in San Antonio and found a campsite just passed a nearby ghetto, far enough passed it that we didn’t feel the need to worry.. much. It was late … Continue reading
Monument Valley, Canyon de Chelly, The Carlsbad Caverns & a hot tub in the desert
Ok. We’re playing catch up once again, almost a month since we last posted anything, down to a combination of laziness, poor RV campsite internet connections and being too busy having fun. Our last post finished off our time at … Continue reading
A very very Grand Canyon
So we’ve been joined by our tall friend Col for this part of our trip across the USA. We left Vegas at 8am (no easy task, as we had hit our pillows only 4 hours earlier… ) and made the … Continue reading
Death Valley; The Wild Wild West!
Located in the State of California is miles and miles of wasteland desert known as Death Valley, called so because this was the fastest but most deadly way to get into the gold mining states of California during the Gold … Continue reading
Viva Las Vegas!
What happened in Vegas… Stays in Vegas… but here’s a little sneek peek…